Claudio Catania
Senior Partner @ FITEC
Milan, Italy
Claudio Catania is a Senior Partner at Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR. He began his career in the private equity sector in 2000. Before joining the Fondo Italiano team, he worked for The Carlyle Group at their London and Milan offices, completing investments in European SMEs. He has invested in and served on the boards of directors ofSmartTrust, FRSGlobal and UC4 with which he followed the Appworx acquisition. Now he is member of the board of Seco on behalf of FII Tech Growth. He previously worked for Morgan Stanley Capital Partners where he completed three investments and one disinvestment. He began his professional career at Hewlett Packard in Great Britain, Silicon Valley and France working in the central research and development units on the creation of new divisions based on the use of new technologies. Many of his activities have been published on international specialist magazines. Claudio graduated with a first class degree in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University in Milan and obtained a Master's Degree in Telecommunications and Information Technology from Cefriel (Milan Polytechnic University). He also received a Master of Business Administration from Insead (Fontainebleau) and he is a Certified Financial Analyst since 2005.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Claudio Catania invests in
Stages Claudio Catania invests in
Countries Claudio Catania invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 3 (30%)
- Information Technology 3 (30%)
- Mobile 2 (20%)
- Computer 2 (20%)
- Software 2 (20%)
Stage
- Private Equity 4 (40%)
- Series B 2 (20%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Investments
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Intrauma was founded in 2006 and is based in Rivoli, near Turin, in Piedmont. The company designs and manufactures the O’nil range of locking plates, which has been in clinical use since 1998. Intrauma is committed to on-going research and development of both materials and manufacturing processes, in collaboration with experienced trauma surgeons,to provide the highest quality implants and to simplify today’s approach to Traumatology. Intrauma is also dedicated to building and maintaining strong customer relationships, believing that this is the foundation of a successful business.Intrauma TODAYToday, Intrauma is the second largest supplier of trauma devices in Italy, and is rapidly expanding its international sales and marketing operations across the world.This also gives the company the opportunity to work with surgeons across the globe, developing more unique products and continuing to improve traumatology techniques for the benefit of both patient and surgeon. | $11M / Private Equity / Sep 10, 2024 | |
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Skynet Technology specializes in support services for retail companies. | $16.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 15, 2023 | |
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Skynet Technology specializes in support services for retail companies. | $16.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 15, 2023 | |
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App Quality is an online platform that offers testing services to its client to optimize User Experience of Digital Services.The platform enables its users to upload their application, configure the testing criteria, crowd-tested through the platform and obtain results. The platform features bugs completion, bugs finding, usability, security,internalization, load testing, competitor analysis, etc. App Quality was launched in 2015 by Luca Manara and Edoardo Depoli and is based in Milan. | $10.9M / Series B / Jan 24, 2023 | |
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Friem is an electrical manufacturing firm that uses electrolysis to manufacture hydrogen for industries and high-power plants. Their services include the production of chemicals, the extraction of aluminum, metal refining to extract metals, and heat treatments. | $8.2M / Private Equity / Apr 13, 2022 | |
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Apparound is an all-in-one digital solution that improves sales productivity by providing sales reps, useful tools and information to make their daily activities easier. Apparound removes the burden of daily manual activities and allows sales reps to have more time to focus on customer engagement. The result is increased sales revenue, a boostin sales performances, better-satisfied customers, and happier salespeople.Visit our website for more information and request a free tailored demo: http://www.apparound.com | $10M / Private Equity / Jan 27, 2022 | |
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Inxpect provides radio based sensing technology for home automation, security and industrial safety. | $20.6M / Series B / Feb 16, 2021 | |
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SECO seeks and aims for every day, as it develops new embedded solutions with strong added value.Since its beginnings the company has always chosen to make creativity and innovation its prime assets and the foundation on which to build its competitive strength. Over the years, this has made it possible to build up a highly specialized expertise,to such an extent that the company has become one of the world's leading reference companies in the embedded electronics segment.From birth of concept to design of hardware, software and mechanics, from project engineering to mass-production and final testing procedures: SECO offers its clients a complete service and products that have applications in numerous different sectors, ranging from industrial automation to the field of medicine, automotive vehicles, transport, telecommunications and infotainment. The constant quest for innovative solutions capable of satisfying a continuously evolving market has led SECO to establish fruitful collaborative relations and partnerships with leader companies at an international level. | $11M / Private Equity / Apr 23, 2018 | |
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Elco Group holds a strategic, proactive and innovative role in the interpretation of new business models to create growth and synergy of activities of all participating companies. Through its international know-how is also able to cover all consulting services for activities that are necessary for internationalization and industrial rationalizationof organizational processes. | $5.5M / Dec 29, 2011 | |
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Cartour Srl is a Messina, IT-based ferry services company. | $21.9M / May 20, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About FITEC
FITEC, managed by Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR, with a target commitment of Euro 150 million is the first Italian technology private equity and late-stage venture capital fund. It is entirely dedicated to equity investments in small and medium-sized technology-based Italian companies, which are either backed by VC funds, like Termo, Everli andBeMyEye, or have been self-financed and are owned by entrepreneurs seeking further investment to grow, like Seco and Healthware Group. The fund announced its first closing in September 2017 with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti as Cornerstone Investor. Fondo Italiano d’investimento SGR currently manages a total of eight investment funds, dedicated to institutional investors, for a total of about Euro 3 billion of target Asset Under Management.
FITEC Contacts
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Claudio Catania
Senior Partner
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Marco Vassallo
Investment Manager
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Mauro Pretolani
Senior Partner
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What does Claudio Catania invest in?
Claudio Catania invests primarily in Manufacturing, Information Technology and Mobile startups, most often at Private Equity and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Claudio Catania last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Claudio Catania closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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